GFAF Public Service Featured
NBC-25 and The Frederick News Post have both featured GFAF’s ongoing military care package program and KEY 103 Radio is running monthly PSA’s to coordinate with our public service outreach.
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JPD Receives SpotlightJean Peterson Design was one of three companies spotlighted in The Gazette’s recent Frederick County Business Report. Immersion Active Makes Inc. 500|5000 List Of The Fastest Growing Companies In The United StatesImmersion Active, the only internet marketing agency in the United States focused solely on the baby boomer and senior markets, made the 2009 Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the country. The company’s ranking at 1,624, reflects a 197 percent growth between 2005 and 2008.This year’s Inc. 500|5000 list features businesses that are both innovative and resistant to the down economy. David Weigelt, partner and chief marketing strategist, said that this recognition is a larger indicator of the strength of Immersion Active’s niche.“For the first time in history, the majority of adults in the United States are over the age of 40,” he said. “Doing well in the midst of this economy is a reflection of how companies are taking marketing to baby boomers and seniors seriously.” “Of course we look to grow financially, but monetary growth isn’t our sole focus,” partner and creative director Jonathan Boehman explained. “We pride ourselves on creating engaging and meaningful online experiences for mature consumers and are continually honing our approach.”“It goes without saying that an incredibly talented and hard-working team is behind all of this,” Weigelt said, “but I suppose we also have the boomers to thank.”The Inc. 500|5000 list is published yearly in the September issue of Inc. Magazine. The list measures revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2008, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2005, and $2 million in 2008. JPD Honored With American Graphic Design AwardsJean Peterson Design was recently honored with nine American Graphic Design Awards from Graphic Design USA. The winning projects included: Bill Me Later’s tradeshow display and direct mail campaign; The Fredericktowne Players’ “Grace and Glorie” poster; Frederick County Public Libraries’ quarterly newsletter; Blackrock Center for the Arts 2008-2009 season brochure and website; B Scott Photography’s logo; Weinberg Center for the Arts’ 2008-2009 season brochure and the company’s own website jeanpetersondesign.com. The awards honor outstanding design work of all kinds and across all media: print and collateral, advertising and sales promotion, corporate identity and logos, internet and interactive design, packaging and POP, broadcast and motion graphics. Only 15% of the 8,000+ entries were recognized with an award. Ellen Byrne Solos At The DelaplaineFrom September 5 - October 18, Ellen Byrne will literally have her ‘One Woman’ show at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center. Featuring large, textured paintings of women in a variety of settings, Ellen was the subject of a feature story in September 4th Frederick News Post. For the full story, click here. Members In the NewsWe love to highlight the accomplishments of our membership. If you’re making news - or see another member who is - please send the information to Cheri Baker and we’ll toot your horn! Are You ConnectedLetters From The FrontRegardless of politics, we cannot take our freedom lightly. In appreciation for those who serve, GFAF continues its ongoing mission of providing military care packages. To date, GFAF has donated 28 care packages. Spearheaded by Lisa Gorham, GFAF receives correspondence from our two main contacts, SFC Bruce Lyon and SGT Waine D. Haley. For a full list of items being collected, please click here. All items may be dropped off at Jean Peterson Design or brought to any of the GFAF meetings this year.
FROM SFC Bruce Lyon (introduced in our last LOUPE) Hello Lisa, The answer to your question about the missing soldier is yes, he is one in the same. The important thing to remember is that the news media does not always obtain their information from reliable sources. What you hear back home on CNN does not always reflect the truth of the situation, as is the case here. Perhaps someday soon, I will be able to speak to you when OPSEC (operational security) is not an issue. On another note, today we learned that we will be transferring to another outpost, the ANA will be the sole occupants of this FOB. Therefore, our mailing address will change by the end of the week. When I get our new mailing address I will send it along, with a picture of course! I apologize for any inconvenience. This week should be a down week, as we will be resting and preparing to move to our new location. With that in mind I will have more time to correspond, so please feel free to write anytime, it is always good to hear from people back home.
Hello Lisa, Well, we moved into our new home and they wasted no time putting us to work. We have been busy with the election and the Taliban has been as busy as ever trying to disrupt it, they have been emplacing IED’s, attacking FOB’s with mortars and threatening the local population trying to keep them from the polls on election day. This has kept us very busy these past few days. Yes, I’m allowed to tell you what I do here. I’m part of an ETT (Embedded training Team), we work with and train the ANA (Afghan National Army) to fight, win, and survive on the battlefield. We also teach them what is called COIN ( COunter INsurgency) because that is what we are fighting here. We also try to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people and try to put an Afghan face on the missions and operations that we conducted here so they will have confidence in their government to protect them from the taliban. We send the ANA out on these missions and stay in the background to observe and provide support should things go wrong (as they often do). I call Michigan my home. I was raised on a cattle farm in the northern lower peninsula, about 25 miles south of the Mackinaw Bridge. I’m an avid outdoorsman, I hunt (sorrry, I know your (sic) an animal lover), fish, scubadive, ski, and snowmobile in my free time. I’m not one to sit indoors and watch sports on TV, I make my own sport.20I make my living as an Infantry Instructor by traveling to many states in the US that have an RTI (Regional Training Center), I teach soldiers how to fight, win, and survive on the battlefield. I also teach future army officers at the Michigan Military academy in Ft. Custer, MI. and at the Alabama Military Academy in FT. McClellan Alabama. So now you know a little about me and where I come from. If your group wants to send a package, there are a few things we could use, we have 3 guard dogs here that help provide us security, they could use flea collars and worm medicine. we could also use a few CDRW’s because we have to submit reports to higher. We have to write them on our own computers and submit them on whats called a SIPR line, it is a secure internet by satellite and we cannot use flash drives in SIPR computers. We are down to our last 2 CDRW’s and our normal supply chain is terribly inefficient and slow. We realize that you don’t want us to be shy and to ask for whatever we want, but we are perhaps for the lack of a better term….too proud to ask for any more than the basic necessities. Don’t get me wrong, we are extremely grateful for your groups generosity in sending items to us here, but we pride ourselves in enduring adversity…..it builds character. Please extend our sincere thanks to your PS team and the others who donate items for packages you send to us troops here in Afghanistan, we are grateful that people back home that don’t even know us, care enough to take the time and expense to send much needed items. Well, it is after 10pm here and I have to be up at 0500 tomorrow morning and do it all over again. So, I will close for now, write if you get a chance, like I said before, it’s good to hear from people back home. FROM SGT. WAINE D. HALEY
Megan, Your email is sweet; I’m glad we made your day because you did the same forus. Yes we love DVDs that is one of the main things we do when we get downtime. If you would like to send some, we would love to get some (I have amovie I’d love to get. It’s kinda of girly but it’s my favorite. “What dreams may come” starring Robin Williams) other than that anything would be great. I’m sending some photos; the black and white is me. The rest are some of theguys we sent your package to also a letter from a Washing Post writer thatwas embedded with us. He tells the story of how it is over here right now.It’s a lot different than the last time I was here. Take care and tell everyone “Hello” from the front lines. Oh yea a T-Rat or as we call it MRE (meals ready to eat) The are aprepackaged meal that has a shelf life of about ten year. They are awful…but better than going hungry. If you’d like I can send you a few, so you cansee what they are like.
Hello Ms. Gorham, Yes, I’m back in The wonderful world of Iraq. (sarcasm)(same post) Congrats on your award, from what I’ve experienced you and you team deserves every kudos and more. Thank you for your support. It means a lot to us. Things are starting to heat up again but nowhere near as bad as they are in Afghan. I’ll be there in 2011. Hopefully in the field not behind this desk.I love field work. I¹m hoping to get on with a U.S. News station, if not I’ll go with the Army again. I love being a photographer. I call Nashville, Tenn. home. I went to college there and had a studio when I first got into the biz. I¹ll be living in Ft. Meade, Md when I get back.There is an Army school there I’ll be attending for nine months. (CombatCamera) Well I hate to cut it short but I have to get back to work, but I do enjoy taking a break and shooting you an email. Thank you for the support of Any Soldier program. I shipped your box out toa small Joint Security Station. I’ll get feedback from the troops there in acouple of days, but I can tell you up front that they will love everything. JSS troops don’t have much. The bases have the bare minimum shower,bathroom, and small living quarters. There job is very important to theoverall mission in Iraq right now. A short explanation is they are the earsand eyes on the front lines of today’s battle field while workinghand-in-glove with the Iraqi Army. If you like to know more I’m in charge of a Public Affairs team. I can send you all kinds of stories and photos. DVIDSHUB.net you can search 30th HBCT or just email me back and I shoot some stories and pics. Thank you again High Four GFAF!The kick-off social at Flying Dog Brewery on September 17th was a huge success for more than our members - local homeless animals also reaped the benefits of our collective goodwill. Thanks to the generosity of GFAF members and the community, we collected a heap of pet supplies for the animals at Tails of Hope Sanctuary. Additionally, we raised $179 for the animal rescue through the sale of raffle tickets. Way to go! Congratulations to all our raffle and door prize winners. On behalf of Tails of Hope Sanctuary, the GFAF Public Service team and the board of directors, THANK YOU to everyone who donated - it truly makes a difference. Paws up to our public service sponsors: Flying Dog Brewery, Printing Services Inc. and Two Paws Up! GFAF Goes PublicLast year, GFAF added a public service component to our programs. This year, public service chairperson Lisa Gorham has done an outstanding job of matching area charities to our educational topics. Our goals are to raise awareness of the wonderful and diverse non-profit work performed in our community and to support these organizations in small, but meaningful, ways. |
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